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...amelioration of the manifold blemishes of our society in such a way as to recall the distressed and angry, young and old, to work patiently and seriously together, charitably, and reasonably and on a basis of knowledge, in a fresh effort to build a satisfying society that will stir and elicit loyalty...
...iconoclastic writings. His signal offense was The New Class, published in 1957, in which he characterized the Communist bureaucracy as every bit as oppressive, materialistic and hierarchical as capitalism. On his release in 1966, he was prohibited from engaging in "political activity"-a usefully flexible admonition not to stir up controversy. But once again Djilas has defied Tito, his old comrade-in-arms, and brought out The Unperfect Society in the U.S. The Yugoslav regime has not yet reacted...
...done to everything else. Harvard was right in calling in the police to get those people out-there are people there to get an education. It's not right in a democratic society to go into secret files. It's none of their damn business-they just want to stir up trouble...
...years old, and an exile for the past 20 years on the island of Taiwan, he is a living anachronism. Chiang is still widely recognized-at least in formal diplomatic terms- as the representative of all China. Yet even that is beginning to change, as some Western nations stir toward explicit acknowledgment of Mao Tse-tung's rule of the mainland. Italy put out feelers toward possible Peking diplomatic ties earlier this year. Canada announced last week that it planned to hold formal recognition talks with the Communists in Stockholm, starting next month...
...sorry that I must note a few corrections to your account of my recent meeting with graduate students in Comparative Literature (March 18). Nothing so tempestuous occurred as what your article has attempted to stir up, and I believe that most of those present would agree with me that it was "a very constructive occasion." Since it was to be a kind of family occasion, involving some frank shop-talk and possible personalities, your reporter was asked to leave. I now regret that we did not ask him to stay, because I feel sure that first-hand observation would have...